Apartments With Free Parking Reduce Transit Ridership
But if you think that means increasing transit ridership in American cities will be as simple as taking away everyone’s “free” residential parking to make driving less convenient,…
Around 30 percent of Austin’s downtown traffic congestion can be attributed to drivers circling in search of a parking space. In order to solve that problem, Austin Transportation Department’s Parking Enterprise division has launched an effort to address the specific…
More Transit-Oriented Parking Is Coming To South Station
Is a parking garage an “amenity” if its users have to stuff their motor vehicles into the gridlocked heart of one of Boston’s worst traffic bottlenecks?
The Downtown Highway That Could Drive Hartford’s Comeback
The Connecticut capital has been using zoning and transit reforms to stage a downtown recovery. But there’s one big thing in the way: an aging interstate.
Small-scale urban developments starting to sprout. Thank a change in the parking code
The City of Miami eliminated its parking requirement for small-scale development in 2015. Small-scale projects in Little Havana, Wynwood, Allapattah and Edgewater are rising thanks to it.
To speed up buses, SF cut parking on San Bruno Avenue. Welcome to the city's future
The San Bruno Avenue Multimodal Improvement Project turned a scruffy neighborhood in San Francisco’s Portola district into a vision of the city’s future: wide sidewalks, “bulb-out” curbs, fewer parking spaces.
Somerville passes first zoning overhaul in three decades
The city’s new rules repeal minimum parking requirements for most of Somerville and allow backyard cottages—including tiny homes—among myriad other changes.
Housing at Transit: Berkeley Moves to Comply with New State Zoning Law
Step one: creating a Memorandum of Understanding between BART and Berkeley so they can work together. The MOU will guide Berkeley’s accelerated rezoning of these two parcels.
Portland Adopts Sweeping Changes To Rules Regarding Bike Parking
City Council has approved changes to Portland’s zoning code that will require developers of larger buildings — as well as those making major renovations — to carve out space for bicycles.
The End of Driving: The Promise and Pitfalls of Autonomous Cars
Sometime last month a Chrysler Pacifica picked up a passenger who’d requested a ride. Unlike a normal ride share car, nobody was behind this one’s wheel.
Creating Infill Developments True To Their Urban Context
in Miami's Little Havana, developer Andrew Frey sidesteps the temptation to go tall in urban infill, opting instead to create new residential buildings that fit the context of their historic neighborhoods.
SF is one of the most expensive places in the world to build housing. Here's why
San Francisco is struggling with a herculean task: creating as much housing as possible to make up for decades of underproduction. But the enormous cost of building in the city has meant developers can’t create nearly enough affordable or market-rate homes.
Glendale braces for state laws that will allow more granny flats in single-family neighborhoods
Glendale City Council members introduced a temporary emergency ordinance that will allow the city to enforce some of its ADU regulations — including maximum unit sizes — even as several state housing laws going into effect Jan. 1 will supersede or negate many others.
On a brisk Saturday morning in November, a group of two dozen cyclists pauses in front of a four-story apartment complex in East Austin. The Terrace at Oak Springs, run by the nonprofit Integral Care, opened in September to provide …
San Diego's parking reforms could increase the cost of renting or buying a home
SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – Licensed Real Estate Broker Mark Powell joined KUSI to discuss the impact of San Diego’s parking reforms. The parking reforms allows builders to develop units without parking to lower housing costs. San Diego City Council voted to reform parking to help reduce traffic and increase housing affordability. Categories: Good Morning San Diego, In Studio Guests
Drivers park for free on holidays in Montgomery Co., but Ride On passengers have to pay
Montgomery County Councilmember Evan Glass (D-At Large) wants to make Ride On bus service free during every county-observed holiday. Glass— a Silver Spring resident, and ardent public transportation advocate —announced the concept on Twitter Tuesday. It came in direct response to a tweet from Montgomery County's Department of Transportation. "In observance of New Year's Day, Public Parking is free on Wednesday, January 1. Includes on-street meters, lots and garages," MCDOT's tweet stated.
Waiting for car manufacturers and ride-hail operators to decide the future of urban AV deployment will not create the cities that urban planners hope for, and often work very hard to make happen. While significant penetration of AVs — private or shared — is likely a decade or two away, deferring directional, optimization, and livability strategies will rob cities of flexibility, influence, and degrees of freedom within a decade. If you believe AVs are coming eventually, the time to start getting ready is now, even if you believe human drivers will remain dominant for many decades. The steps...